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Marion sat in the sun and blinked, ran her fingers comblike through her hair.

Lord of Autumn 2009

Roosterfish are named for their dainty, comblike dorsal fin, but they're no chickens.

Trip Report: Deep Sea Fishing off the Coast of Costa Rica 2005

Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comblike incrustation on the top of the mass — this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the “crown,” and the Southern fishers the

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

His fleshy bill was the same shape as a ducks, but with comblike ridges inside the bottom half.

The Realms of the Gods Tamora Pierce 1996

His fleshy bill was the same shape as a ducks, but with comblike ridges inside the bottom half.

The Realms of the Gods Tamora Pierce 1996

She would show the glittering arch of her upper third, occasionally, and scrape it along behind the comblike row; sometimes a pinnacle stood straight up, like a statuette of ebony, against that glittering white shield, then seemed to glide out of it by its own volition and power, and become a dim specter, while the next pinnacle glided into its place and blotted the spotless disk with the black exclamation-point of its presence.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

She would show the glittering arch of her upper third, occasionally, and scrape it along behind the comblike row; sometimes a pinnacle stood straight up, like a statuette of ebony, against that glittering white shield, then seemed to glide out of it by its own volition and power, and become a dim specter, while the next pinnacle glided into its place and blotted the spotless disk with the black exclamation-point of its presence.

A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 Mark Twain 1872

Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comblike incrustation on the top of the mass -- this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

There is a comblike serrated feather on the leading edge of the wing, velourlike feathers on top and a trailing edge of feathers on the rear of the wing.

NYT > Global Home By JIM ROBBINS 2011

Rooster, whose real name is David Fisk, is so named perhaps because of his comblike crest of hair.

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